Overclocking help

Originally Posted by Abbadon The Despoiler

More Vcore! or you might have bad ram that complains

How! and howmuch!

It's now actually doing 1.3-1.4V

Originally Posted by Abbadon The Despoiler

try setting your Vcore to 1.4 manually also set turbo voltage to the lowest possible if you have it. LLC should be at 75% or lvl 2

It´s on 1.4 , look at my edit.
When running prime95 for a minute or two, I got ~80C , so I'm lowering from 4.6 to 4.4 GhZ, I don't want to risk it too much.

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4.4 GhZ now. SuperPi takes 8 seconds to calculate 1 Million Pi digits.

Above are the results of Prime95 Torture Test (2nd option, full usage etc.) and CoreTemp.

So, I'll keep it running over night now and in the morning hope my house isn't burned down or my PC has a BSoD?

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after running for ~10 min




Please respond if it's safe for my hardware to let this test run over night.

Air cooling is generally not recommended for OCing at higher rates. It can work, but is not optimal. Lower OCs will run good but pushing them too hard will require more suitable cooling options. Though to be fair, some guy got his i7 to 5Ghz with just a Noctua HSF.

Anyways, it should not be hitting those temps on idle. At load, sure, but its still kinda high. Over 90 is a dangerous area, so keeping it far away from that is preferable. But your computer has fail-safes in it that prevent it from doing major damage. Your PC will just turn off if it hits critical stages.

Best option OP. Just go into your BIOS, and there will be a huge button that says "CLICK HERE TO OVERCLOCK YOUR PC"

Super easy.

/s

A lot of MBs these days actually do have an 'easy OC' option, but its usually pretty bland. UEFI is actually really sweet, and makes OCing a lot easier than it used to be.